ENH 362 Schedule

ENH 362: Digital Project Management in Humanities and Arts

All due dates are subject to change. Changes will appear on the Announcements page in myASU. Read announcements each time you log on.
This course is not self-paced. There are 14 due dates. If you miss more than 2 due dates you fail the course. Work submitted after the due dates will not receive credit.
Work is due at noon on the date listed (Monday, Wednesday and Friday).
I grade in the afternoon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If your work is there you receive credit. If it is not you do not receive credit.

Summer 2009	Monday Reading		Wednesday Reasearch		Friday Planning
Week 1	1-June	Questions about the Course--please review all of the course materials and post any questions you have about the course in the "Questions about the Course" forum. Reading 1 Chaper 1 The Project Manager Chapter 2 Web Team Roles Chapter 3 Communication Cues	3-June	Virtual Cafe--Please post a note about yourself in the Virtual Cafe. Research 1 Go to www.superstitionreview.com and click through all sections for all 3 issues to get a good understanding of navigation, design, and content. Visit the previous course shell to view materials and get an idea of how the tasks of the review have been managed. Choose 3 online literary magazines from newpages.com to compare with Superstition Review. Write a brief report that examines these questions. What is SR's purpose? Our audience? How do we differ from other online literary magazines? What do we have in common with others? What tools have been used to manage the tasks and teams assoicated with SR? Where could these tools be improved? Simplified? Changed?	5-June	Resume Builder--A main goal of this class and of the SR internship is to give students practical skills that will allow them to enter the workplace with an advantage over other job applicants. To help you articulate the skills you practice during this class and during the internship, we will start the semester with a resume and continue to build on it as we add experience. Please post your resume to the Resume Builder area, and return to that to add skills and experience throughout the semester. At the end of the semester we will revisit the resume to polish it. Planning 1 Deliverable: One of your duties as a project manager for SR will be to establish yourself as a knowledgeable leader. Write an introduction to your student interns explaining the history, audience, and purpose of SR, and defining your role as project manager, and their web team roles. Outline a plan for communication that you will use throughout the semester with your interns. Please draw from this week's reading to complete this task.
Week 2	8-June	Reading 2 Chapter 4 Defining the Project Chapter 5 Managing Change Chapter 6 The Art of Planning	10-June	Research 2 Based on the reading about creative breifs, needs assesments, managing change, and planning, review the Spring 2008 course shell and the documents used to manage and distribute tasks. Start assembling lists of tasks that your group will be responsible for in the Fall. Write a Creative Brief (p. 61) and a Project Charter (p. 69) for your Group. Keep in mind ways you will need to define, implement, control and complete the tasks associated with your group.	12-June	Planning 2 Deliverable: Using Microsoft Project, create a schedule of tasks for your group. See page 117 for more instructions. Be sure to include meetings in the schedule (these can be held online or face to face).
Week 3	15-June	Reading 3 Chapter 7 Learning to Love Meetings Chapter 8 Workflow Chapter 9 Managing the Design Phase	17-June	Research 3 Read all of the documents in the SR documents button in our course shell. Based on the posted documents and the Organization course shell and the 3 chapters you read for the week, please produce the following items (please put them all on one post): A schedule of meetings include in sample agendas. How will you hold the meetings? What is your back-up plan for meetings? Create lists for sample deliverables and sample roles (based on tables 8.1 and 8.2)	19-June	Planning 3 Deliverable: Create a small team workflow report as described in Chapter 8.
Week 4	22-June	Reading 4 Chapter 10 The Technical Build Chapter 11 Surviving Quality Assurance	24-June	Research 4	26-June	Planning 4 Deliverable:
Week 5	29-June	Reading 5 Chapter 12 Getting it Out the Door Chapter 13 Leading Organizational Change	1-July	Research 5	3-July	Planning 5 Deliverable:

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